Harnessed

In particular, my book is called "Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man."

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2011

Mark Changizi is Director of Human Cognition at 2AI, and the author of The Vision Revolution (2009) and his new book, Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man (2011).

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

An essential question goes unaddressed in "Harnessed": Why do humans have two forms of communication, music and language?

A Sound Check For the Ages Daniel J. Levitin 2011

"Harnessed" maintains that language instead comes from imitating three basic "solid-object physical events," the "hits, slides and rings" of one thing coming into contact with another.

A Sound Check For the Ages Daniel J. Levitin 2011

Now evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi enters the fray with "Harnessed," a book that aspires, as the subtitle has it, to explain "how language and music mimicked nature and transformed ape to man."

A Sound Check For the Ages Daniel J. Levitin 2011

Mark Changizi is Director of Human Cognition at 2AI, and the author of The Vision Revolution (2009) and his new book, Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man (2011).

Mark Changizi, Ph.D.: Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration Ph.D. Mark Changizi 2012

In his review of "Harnessed" by Mark Changizi, Daniel J. Levitin notes that this book on the evolution of music and speech is "a loosely organized collection of introspections, what-ifs and untested ideas" Bookshelf, Oct. 12 .

The Language Book Review Is a Hoot 2011

In his new book, "Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man" BenBella Books, Mr. Changizi theorizes that humans channel the "sound of movement" to build forms of communication.

Dancing Out of the Dark Pia Catton 2011

A young reader needn't have any particular interest in Africa to enjoy the ingenious real-life hero of "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" Dial Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 32 pages , a picture book for 6- to 10-year-olds.

Get Yourself Ready To Be Blown Away Meghan Cox Gurdon 2012

Most of "Harnessed" is devoted to discussing the origins of the sounds we make, but that is far from the most interesting part of the story.

A Sound Check For the Ages Daniel J. Levitin 2011